The next week came around Marian and Robin were sat in the waiting room ready to have their first appointment with the doctor.

"That baby is so ugly" Robin stated rather loudly pointing at a poster on the notice board Marian elbowed him in the arm. "What? It is. Our baby better not be like that," Robin said jokingly threatening her.

"Miss Fitzwater" the receptionist called "Dr Green is read for you now."

"Thank you" Marian got up and Robin followed behind wondering why he came to sit on some uncomfortable chair in a weirdly smelling office while his fiancé is prodded and poked with various instruments. Marian knocked lightly on the door and entered.

"Ah Mrs Fitzwater come in have a seat" the doctor shook her hand "And you must be Mr Fitzwater how do you do?"

"Oh we're not married" Marian said rather deliberately. She looked to Robin who raised his eyebrows "erm what I meant to say is we're engaged. He's Mr Locksley, I'm Miss Fitzwater" the woman looked slightly confused as she looked between the couple.

"Well congratulations on your engagement" she finally said and they all sat down. "Now Miss Fitzwater before we get started I'd like to ask you a few questions" she looked at Marian and she smiled and nodded. "Right. Will this be your first child?"

"Yes" Marian said beaming. Doctor Green scribbled at a form before looking up again

"So this is your first pregnancy?" Marian's smile disappeared, as she all of a sudden felt very uncomfortable.

"No" she said quietly Robin sat up more in his chair as she said this. Marian didn't look at him but at the floor but she could tell that his eyes were on her. She couldn't cope.

"And how many times have you been pregnant before?"

"Twice" Marian answered trying to look like it didn't bother her. For Robin it was like taking a bullet.

"And these were miscarriages or abortions?"

"Abortions" Marian said loosing any kind of fake confidence she had gathered before. Robin thought he might die.

"And when were these two abortions?" Marian twisted her hands as she tried to concentrate on dates.

"Erm… erm… one would be in 2000. The other in 2003" her mouth was drying out and she couldn't look at Robin for the life of her.

"And were they for reasons of health or…" the doctor glanced at Robin but he was staring at Marian "…otherwise"

"Otherwise" Marian said quietly through watery eyes. Robin got up and left slamming the door behind him. He knew what 'otherwise' meant. It meant that the man who got her knocked up wasn't bothered with her when it happened and it was him. Twice. As he walked across the car park he clenched his hands to stop him punching a window and kicked a tyre instead. He got in the car and started the engine.

"Well I can't just leave her. That's what got her into the mess in the first place. Dumb-ass" instead he put the radio on and waited for her to come out.

Marian stood up to leave and apologised for the actions of her fiancé but didn't go into details of anything. She closed the door and sighed, wiped some stray tears away and straightened up. She walked across the lobby and out the door into the car park. He was still there which was the silver lining. She got in the car and did her seatbelt. They didn't speak all the way home.

Marian opened the door flung her keys on the table and press the button on the answering machine to get their messages.

"You have 2 new messages. Message 1 received today at 10:33am," the automatic voice informed

BEEP "Hey you lovebirds" Allan's voice filled the hallway. "Well I don't know what to do for my birthday. If you've forgotten it's in a week" he added with a laugh "well I just wanted Marian to give it a think she's pretty good at that stuff so give me a call bye" BEEP

Marian raised her eyebrows. Like she had nothing better to do. She took off her coat and hung it up. Robin did the same and walked through to the living room. Marian stood waiting for the next message

"Message 2 received today at 11:14am"

Robin slowly walked back through "I'm going to…"

BEEP "Hello Mari…" Marian launched at the machine and hit a button

"Message deleted" the robot woman told them. Marian looked to Robin who watched in shock.

"What?" Marian asked trying to look innocent

"Who was that?" Robin cocked his head towards the phone.

"No one" said Marian. Robin raised his eyebrows he knew she wasn't telling the truth. "What?" Marian said in a high-pitched voice. Robin just gave a look as if to say 'oh fine don't tell the truth because I know you're lying but hey I'm only your fiancé' and walked back into the living room

Marian just sighed and excused herself from nobody in particular. She sat in the bath and pressed her eye sockets into her kneecaps.

"Why would he call again?" Marian thought to herself "would it be important or just to psyche her out?" Marian ran her figures through her hair "I cant be bothered to think about it anymore" she threw her head back and splashed the water as she submerged herself in the water and came back up to surface. She lay there for a minuet just watching the steam rise from the water. "What am I going to do?"